Pictory

Music!

Thanks Yara

Music

Music is by Aref Ensemble, Parviz Meshkatian's music group.  It is the beginning (moghadameh) of a piece entitled "Chekad" in the Dastan album in which Mohammad Reza Shajarian sings.

Music!!!

Can Anyone identify the music?

Thanks!

Everybody Loves Somebody!

Hallelujah!

Forgot to mention another challenge Reza Shah and his Son

were faced with and that was the commies.
Although both of them tried very hard to eradicate this cancerous tumor (i.e., the commies) but they did not quite succeed!?
But thanks to Ayatollah Khomeini. He understood the commies very well. First, he lured them in as his followers and once they [the commies] were de-armed then he [Khomeini] killed them all one by one. In fact, Hossain SabzAli Mousavi, the Green leader, carried out Khomeini's plan.
Whatever was left of the commies fled to the "Western" Not "Eastern" European countries and Canada.
Now 31 years later and still being a burden on the tax payers of their host countries they continue regurgitating (i.e., Nushkhar) the same allaf and yonjeh as they used to do!?
My response to the left over commies is, hey you, get a job and add some value to your society!
God bless America and please start the bombing of the mullahs and their followers.

The stench of BS is overwhelming here

"People in Iran don't smile." LOL. Please continue the dehumanization. I'm sure war will put a smile on those faces fast! First a good dose of sanctions. Yes! 

Except for the shah's crappy regime , those

  were the good old days .

Mirza Agha

I am not a deluder, I am very well aware of the short comings of our society in 1978, and don't put words in my mouth, see which countries and what times were mentioned as comparison! Besides those were not my words/remarks rather the words of some of the people who actually "del khoshi az Pahlavia nadashtan", and had spent a year or two in Shah's prisons.

I rest my case. 

Facinating

OMG; brings back so many sweat memories.  So real, so nostolgic.  Thanks, GS

At least they had smiles on their faces.

Something you can't say about those living in Iran today of course except the mullahs and their supporters.

The background nature was beautiful. Even the mules and the donkeys looked healthier in this clip. 

It was only in 1962 that the cites of Tehran and Karaj started getting clean water and thanks to the Shah and his modernizing efforts that resulted in constructing the Karaj Dam.  

Both Rza Shah and the his son Mohammad Reza Shah inherited a chaotic, backward, illiterate, barbaric, and most importantly infested-with-mullahs country. It's amazing that these two men managed so much in so little time. You don't believe me ask Prof Sadeq Ziba Kalam, one of the 1979 revolutionists and advisers to the Government of the Islamic Republic (i.e., Mullahs). 

To all the left over commies around here your propaganda against the Pahlavies doesn't sell anymore. 

By now, yolanda, you know who the hell Mirza is...

Yes, indeed, we were just five short years away from "The Grand Civilization", when Mirza brought down the Pahlavis by poking his hookah stick(?!) into the Royal Bubble.

Yes, indeed! 

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Dear Fatollah,

   Thank you for the long post with history of Iran.

Thanks,

The reason I mentioned the

The reason I mentioned the 'angle of view' is that we often get it wrong. 'bare foot' can be poverty. It can also be a lifestyle. It's not for us to decide. It's for them. Bear in mind that this video is taken from some most prosperous rural life in Iran.

Lifting an electricity pole can be mechanized. It can also be done by several men with bare hands. The choice has more to do with the local economics and the workforce.

My point is that the ultimate solution is to give the power of decision making to the people themselves, at local level. Trust me, they are not dumber than you and I. They will make the good call. As deciders not followers.

If we get rid of manipulative politics all-around, the rest is no brainer. 

Dear Yolanda

1963 Iran was a backward country, 1963 was the year the land reforms started, you see the Mirza's family perhaps owned land areas as big as the city of Boston, with several villages in it, you know what that means? it means the family of Mirza owned every living creature in that land!

1963 was the year that lifestyle ended, and Iranian society structure altered and a new begning started for Iran and most Iranians (peasants). By 1973 Iran have had the same growth ratio that some of our modern countries of Asia had during the 80s, let's say Taiwan or Singapour or Malaysia.

That happened before oil prices rocketed by 3-4 folds. People can say what they please, I'd rather jugde Iran's developement with countries of that era, countries in the same situation as Iran. If it wasn't for people like Mirza, we would be no less developed than Greece, Turkey and even India.

The rest is history, some people blame Shah of Iran because he cave in to the Mullahs, and the same people lost every dignity left as a results, but than again talk is cheap. 

-F

Not much has changed!

The problme is even after 31 years the rural Iran is still the same!

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Dear میرزاقلندر ,

   Thank you for your post. I am learning here!

Thanks,

It was called Pahlavation...

Uh, dear yolanda

You should see the videos of our Royal family in that era, in order to get the real picture of our nation then. The Rolls Royce limos, the jewelries, and all the bling which was exclusive to our "Only Family Which Really Mattered".

We are, after all, the sons and daughters of Cyrus the Great, who was unfortunately put to sleep by the Shah Aryamehr the Great.

It's a long story my dear...Let's focus on the mullahs... 

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Wow! Almost half century old video.....apparently not a lot of automation in that era....

Rare view of all that simplicity and beauty

I share benross's feedback.  Great share GS aziz, thank you.

Lovely

I don't think the film was taken by an Iranian. Iranians in general didn't have that angle of view on rural life -or any life for that matter!- back then... nor now. If it was Iranian, then it's an exception.